Charles Conder
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Charles Edward Conder was an English-born painter, lithographer and designer. He emigrated to Australia and was a key figure in the Heidelberg School, arguably the beginning of a distinctively Australian tradition in Western art.
A holiday at Mentone, 1888. This painting featured on a 1984 Australian postage stamp.
How We Lost Poor Flossie (1889), one of Conder's 9 by 5s
Gordon Chambers, Flinders Lane, Melbourne, where Conder resided with Arthur Streeton and Charles Douglas Richardson
Box Hill artists' camp
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The Box Hill artists' camp was a site in Box Hill, Victoria, Australia favoured by a group of plein air painters in the mid to late 1880s who later became associated with the Heidelberg School art movement, named after Heidelberg, the site of another one of their camps.
Tom Roberts, The Artists' Camp, 1886, National Gallery of Victoria
Arthur Streeton, June evening, Box Hill, 1887, Queensland Art Gallery
Frederick McCubbin, Down on His Luck, 1889, Art Gallery of Western Australia
Tom Roberts, Winter morning after rain, Gardiner's Creek, 1885, Art Gallery of South Australia